“You're going to relegate my history to a month? I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history.”

Zion Train
Uprising (1979)

Source: On addressing racism in her writings in “Diana Evans: 'There's a ruthlessness in me towards writing'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/19/diana-evans-interview-ordinary-people in The Guardian (2018 Mar 19)

In a letter to his sister at the end of his life; as quoted in 'The return of the Native' by Joseph Phelan, Artcyclopedia online
1931 - 1943

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Closures and Continuities (2013)

Girl, Interrupted (1994)
Context: It’s important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there’s a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there’s a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there’s a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance. The motive is paramount. Without a strong motive, you’re sunk. My motives were weak: an American-history paper I didn’t want to write and the question I’d asked months earlier, Why not kill myself? Dead, I wouldn’t have to write the paper. Nor would I have to keep debating the question.

Source: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (2021) cited in: " State of emergency in Kazakhstan as Tokayev asks CSTO's help https://www.dailysabah.com/world/asia-pacific/state-of-emergency-in-kazakhstan-as-tokayev-asks-cstos-help" in Daily Sabah, 5 January 2021.

The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (New York: W W Norton, 1998) p. 104

"Black Future, Reverse Racism: The "Black Armband" View of History is Intent on Dividing the Nation Forever", The Bulletin, (April 8, 1997)

quoted in &quot;The Hand on the Lever&quot; http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/21/the-hand-on-the-lever in The New Yorker (July 21, 2014) by Nicholas Lemann <br class="br">2010s